August 01, 2018

In contrast to Portland mayor Teddy's hands-off approach, Sacramento police took care of an ICE "protest" about five days after it started. Teddy told Portland police to stay away for weeks, but they don't work that way in Sacramento.

“We’ve had complaints of their presence noise and inability to get through the sidewalk,” said Sacramento Police Capt. Norm Leong.

Attorneys with the National Lawyer’s Guild say they plan to sue the police department, alleging the police raid violated protesters’ rights to free speech.

“This is a First Amendment protected activity,” said Legal Observer Cres Vellucci.

“The sidewalk is a path for people to walk. It has to be accessible for everyone else; no freedom is unregulated in some way,” said Leong.

June 19, 2018

The Tumwater Police Department identified the deceased gunman Monday as Tim O. Day, 44, of McCleary, Wash. He shot two people and tried carjacking six people. Day also fired shots inside the Walmart, but did not hit anyone inside the store.

A man who would rather not be identified stopped the crime spree when he shot and killed Day. Police say the 47-year-old man is from Oakville, Washington. He is a pastor, volunteer firefighter, and medic.

June 09, 2018

For more than a year, the state of Florida failed to conduct national background checks on tens of thousands of applications for concealed weapons permits, potentially allowing drug addicts or people with a mental illness to carry firearms in public.

That happened because the employee who was supposed to be running the checks couldn't log into the system, so she just sort of blew it off. Admittedly, that seems negligent on her part, and she was subsequently fired.

But it remains: gun accessibility in our country has never been as restricted as it is now, yet we didn't have the school shootings and similar mayhem that we see today.

Though people on the left insist that we need tough, "common-sense" gun control laws, it remains that guns themselves haven't really changed much over the years. Look elsewhere, then.

June 05, 2018

SEATTLE - Seattle lawmakers are discussing the idea of requiring home and landowners to get a permit and pay a fee to cut down a tree six inches in diameter or larger.

Nope, you don't own that land, the city does. I'll pay attention to the clowns when they start paying my property taxes.

Hasn't happened yet, so I continue to ignore them. Here in Portland, they expect "owners" to buy a permit just to trim a tree - and after you pay, some bureaucrat tells you whether or not you can do it. The fee is, of course, nonrefundable.

May 27, 2018

The Florida-based grocery store chain Publix is facing severe backlash after they caved to far-left activist David Hogg and his intimidation tactics on Friday as many customers are now saying they will no longer shop at the store.

Looks as though the customers are following Hoggie's commands, as during his publicity-stunt "die-ins" at two of the stores, one of his "demands" was a boycott against Publix. Seems to me that the appropriate response to these crybullies would be to increase purchases from the stores to the greatest extent possible.

There seem to be a lot of clueless people running around; Hoggie's latest tantrum was precipitated by the revelation that the grocery chain contributed money to the campaign of a [SPIT] Republican politician who supports the 2nd Amendment and is a member of the NRA. But it seems a stretch to call Publix out for "caving" to the little Disco Fuhrer; they decided to temporarily halt all political contributions, including those made to leftist darlings such as "Planned Parenthood". Among the donations they pulled the plug on:

May 21, 2018

Yesterday I mentioned the amusing situation at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, where administrators are looking at a 20% drop in enrollment and a resulting $6 million cut in the budget due to the antics last year of their "students":

Yes, riot police were called into play, tear gas dispensed, and armed "students" held the college president and other administrators hostage in an office for several hours.

Evergreen State College has announced that it is planning to cut $5.9 million from its budget in an effort to offset a rapidly declining enrollment rate.

A former Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs of Evergreen State College, Michael Zimmerman, told Campus Reform that he believes that the declining enrollment is a result of last year’s protests.

“While it is all but impossible to determine why any one student opts not to apply or to attend Evergreen, when hundreds of them make the same decision, it's difficult not to form an opinion,” Zimmerman said.

“In this case, the most likely explanation, indeed, the only viable explanation to my mind, is that the impact of last year's events are playing out in the enrollment numbers,” he continued, noting that “any web search for Evergreen brings up scores of pieces dealing with last year's riots and the handling of them by the administration.”

And the administration there continues to promulgate their idea that the riots were caused by the "alt-right", which they claim targets the college because it's a "progressive institution" - willfully ignoring the fact that the rioters were so-called "Antifa" and "Black Lives Matter" followers; no "alt-right" folks anywhere in sight. But that's how these institutions of higher vegetation operate today.

I'm really glad to have had the good fortune to participate in a sane college experience, back in the day.

And of course, now the kids at Evergreen are mad because their tuition and other costs are going up. It must be because The Man is trying to hold them down!

In related idiocy:

On March 9, the Washington and Lee University Bookstore and the Lee Chapel Museum Shop removed a book from their shelves after a Washington and Lee (W&L) professor accused the book of painting a sympathetic picture of the Confederate States of America and the Old South.

The book in question was a children’s book written about Robert E. Lee’s beloved companion and most trusted warhorse, Traveller.

Get jiggy with me: the 37-page kid's book is about a horse, yet this perfesser gets worked up because goddammit, it was a Confederate horse! So because of one perfesser's gripe, the books were pulled from the shelves for nearly a month. That's how bad things have become in American institutions of higher vegetation.

The books were eventually returned to the shelves, but the incident underscored the ongoing attempts by the far Left to erode and finally remove our basic rights. If you say or write something that they don't agree with, you will be metaphorically lynched.

May 13, 2018

If you're a deranged person like Bruce Jenner, who thinks he should be a girl, here's a trail tip: your DNA don't lie. So if you don't want to be locked up with other biological males, there's an easy answer: don't commit crimes.

President Donald Trump successfully chopped down another leg of former President Barack Obama’s “legacy” last week by reversing non-scientific protections that had previously been afforded to so-called transgender inmates.

In an updated “Transgender Offender Manual” published Friday, the Federal Bureau of Prisons made it clear that henceforth, when assigning new inmates to a prison, it will initially take into consideration the inmate’s biological sex versus the inmate’s so-called “gender identity.”

Seems pretty straightforward to me. There's no such thing as a "transgender" person, and it's idiotic to claim otherwise.

This is your Roman bath-house. Amazing what they could do with slaves.

Here in America:

Hemant Mehta at Patheos’ The Friendly Atheist reported that the town of Bay View, Michigan once required all its residents to be both white and Christian, and although they dropped race from their charter in the 1950’s, they continue to only allow Christians to live there.

You better believe that's a lawsuit; the town only has a population of 133, but religious freedom has no place in America today - unless you're Muslim, in which case you can do whatever you want.

May 06, 2018

The NRA is scared- that's why they brought out the President and the VP for the first time to their convention. The young people will win. #USAoverNRA

3:53 PM - 4 May 2018

Yeah, quivering in their boots, eh, Davy?

Plenty of young people who don’t agree with you. They know this is about you using a tragedy for your self aggrandizement and pursuing a career as a democratic operative.

All he does is push the line that the NRA wants to sell more guns. The idiot doesn't seem to realize that the NRA does not sell guns. He also thinks that our country is a democracy. Boy needs to spend less time running his mouth and more time studying.

April 18, 2018

Laura Ingraham's viewership has jumped by 20% since Boss Hogg's boycott. And although many predicted a big uptick in voter registration in the wake of the hoopla following the school shooting (Hogg, though often described as a "survivor" of the shooting, actually was at home when it occurred), the uptick never materialized. Quite the opposite, in fact; registrations have declined by nearly 700 since Feb. 14.

In his latest effort to Hogg the spotlight, Boss is sending out tweets asking people to boycott Black Rock and Vanguard investment firms because guns. Look for the value of your 401k to increase!